For I know the eagerness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has provoked very many.

For I suppose I was not the least behind the very chief apostles.

I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you: for in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I be nothing.

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.